Greeting by Chair: Theadora Swift Koller, Senior Technical Advisor, Health Equity, World Health Organization/HQ
Panel:
- Increasing organizational and social innovations through the “Health Equity Champions” project in Mongolia to decrease health inequities and barriers to services in rural areas – Enkhsaikhan Lkhagvasuren, Director, Division of Infectious disease, Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Mongolia, together with Byambaa Ganbat, WHO Country Office for Mongolia
- Using Digital Health to reduce inequities in access and improve the quality-of-service capacity in rural areas – Derrick Muneene, Unit Head, Capacity Building and Collaboration, Digital Health and Innovation Department, WHO/HQ
- Innovations for equity-oriented eye care in rural and remote areas– Stuart Keel, Technical Officer, Sensory Functions, Disability and Rehabilitation, WHO/HQ
Closing remarks: Bruce Chater, Chair, World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians (WONCA) Working Party on Rural Practice
Thursday 24 March 2022 Meeting ID: 941 7162 7982 Password: 3q#1tYHS |
* This Webinar is part of a WHO series on “tackling rural health inequities”, convened under the umbrella of World Health Day 2021 on “Health Equity”. It is organized by the WHO/HQ Gender, Equity and Human Rights Team, with external partners including WONCA’s Working Party on Rural Practice, OECD, and other agencies in the UN Inequalities Task Team (ITT) subgroup on rural poverty. The series runs from July 2021 to March 2022.